Nancy Astor Quotes

Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

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• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Red
  • Crime
  • Stock

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Long
  • Money
  • Business

• Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Friendships
  • Begin
  • Lots

• I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Firearms

• To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • American
  • Happy
  • Culture

• My confidence comes from my fights and my training.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Confidence
  • Training
  • Fights

• If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Good
  • Information
  • Treat

• I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Golf
  • Boring
  • Bread

• People will always want a free lunch.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Free
  • Lunch

• For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Magic

• It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Running
  • Moving
  • Leadership

• When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Inspiration

• 'All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' 'I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman; 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Heart
  • Happy

• The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily’s spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.

  

  M. K. Hobson

• I was born a Hindu because I had no control over this, but I shall not die a Hindu.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Control
  • Die

• His unit is in charge of 5,000 homes, and they've only been able to search about 2 percent of them. People are standing on roofs or sticking their hands out of air vents so they can get rescued.

  

  Allen Johnson
  • People
  • Air
  • Search

• You have different levels of players. There's are Premier League, international and world-class levels. The world-class level is players at the peak of their career and there's only maybe 50 maximum in the whole world. Stevie moved from a Premier League player to an international player and then world class.

  

  Gerard Houllier
  • World
  • Different
  • Player

• When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.

  

  Billy Mays
  • Up
  • Wall

• Before I realized what was happening, everything blew up. I made 'Animals' when I was in high school, and literally, from that moment, I've been living a different life. I've been touring a lot, traveling a lot, doing great shows. I've been in the studio with my biggest idols.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Never tell your wife she's bad in bed. She'll go out and get a second opinion.

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Bad
  • Wife

• Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

  

  Nancy Astor